Posts by Dan 55

The UK was a founder member of GATT. GATT members got migrated to the WTO.

Re: Just scored some Z80's not so long ago

eZ80 is the modern version I think. The instruction set is compatible, too.

Re: The issue is less "encryption" and more "identity management"

The problem is you're supposed to already have the public key, not the message, because you don't know if you can trust the message. You may also want to send a message to them first, but you can't encrypt it because you don't know their public key.

Maybe putting the public key in a header is okay, if they all match from that sender then the mail client can assume it's safe to go ahead. Something like SSH's first connection certificate - it makes things easier and it's probably okay to use.

Re: Everything they're doing would be fine

There's also Nintendo's next console which is supposed to do VR. Hopefully cheapish, like the Wii did for motion controls.

That's why they wrote it off.

What date of birth do you think he put in his Google account? Bet it was more than 12 years ago considering they don't let children under 13 open an account.

Age of criminal responsibility in Spain is 14.

Re: hiding things

This will put Save As back on most things which have taken it away...

Re: Get real

That'll work... Samsung announced today it is suing a plucky little British IT website for using the word "explode" in a headline instead of "combust". "We wish to reassure our customers that our phones would never explode, they only combust", a PR spokesdroid said.

Re: Sad vindictive political discourse which appeals to the worst in people

- Reducing opportunity with grammar schools.

- Implying the UK are doing foreign doctors a favour by letting them work when it's the UK that desperately needs them.

- Making companies inform the government about which of their employees are foreign. Government should know that already.

- Pulling out of human rights.

- Not taking in refugees*.

- An overall discourse which foments xenophobia.

* Don't confuse this word with other words.

Re: Missed a bit

Is it so difficult to...

1) Keep the Revolv API running

or

2) Build a backend bridge from the Revolv API to the Nest API

or

3) Push out an update which makes Revolv devices talk to the Nest API?

It's in manufacturers' own interest to sell devices that will be a shiny trinket in a year if they want to sell a lot and grow the market. If Google isn't interested in doing it then just forget about it.

UDF would work, most computers except XP will read/write to it out of the box and XP will read it.

Re: More adverts

The Pixel phone has an iPhone price-point but with added slurp. So it's more expensive.

Re: Don't forget Skype hardware dropped

So you're saying don't worry about your old Skype-less non-upgradable 8.1 phone (not all Lumias are upgradable), buy a new more expensive one with a shit UI from us.

MS pleasing customers as always.

What are they going to do, stop thinking or stop working on a theory that they might have started five or ten years ago?

Re: Seems simple to me

Let's try another one... boiler rooms selling false financial products.

There have been many set up in Spain and up until a couple of years ago police in the UK have hit a brick wall due to Spanish police saying they weren't interested because no crime took place in Spain. Eventually they changed their tune and it turns out that yes, the crime was actually committed in Spain - the boiler room was set up in Spain, the phones were in Spain, the people selling the false products were in an office in Spain, and the money went to somewhere under the boiler room's control, and the houses and cars belonging to the ringleaders were in Spain.

The fact that the crime was committed in Spain seems fairly uncontroversial. Why should Laurie Love's case be any different?

Re: This is a much smaller update than going from Windows 7 to Windows 10

We are used to different objects with 3D surfaces and different colours and textures. Slabs of flat white on white is just confusing and slows people down.

The address bar on Edge is invisible and if you don't know it's there you'd go straight to the Bing search bar. But that's probably by design.

Sticking to proper UI style guides don't allow the kind of random per-app confusing behaviour that seems to be increasingly common on desktop software these days. Is it text? Is it a link? Is it a textbox? Who knows? All I know is it's flat.

Re: And Apple?

Agreed. At least you can download an app from Google without giving them your credit card details.

Well I can, from the Mac App Store. IIRC it required a bit of faffing around, later on Apple made it easier to open an Apple ID account without a credit card.

They have however successfully managed to fool people into believing that browser skins on iOS forced to use Webkit are different browsers.

Re: Out of the frying pan..

The PDF viewer is limiting the attack surface by not doing form filling.